Man vs. Nature....We Walk Wrong?

Evolution is the craziest thing. It adapts with our lifestyles and life changes. But are there certain ways in which we ruin perfectly good evolution. That's the idea of New York Magazine's very own Adam Sternbergh.

He says that our feet are perfect by themselves and our need for shoes is ruining the nature of our walk. Or how he puts it as a past article title, "You Walk Wrong." He then goes on to say that he himself wears shoes that conform to the shape of his foot and are similar to walking barefoot. In fact they are called Vivo Barefoot and are made by the Clark shoe family of England.

Sternbergh supports his theory by comparing the unlikely situation that one would wear an arm cast from age three until much older. And then explains that your arm would simply "not work" after removing the cast. He also gives proof of a 1940's study on the feet of Indian rickshaw drivers, whatever those are, and how healthy their feet are.

My feet aren't healthy?

I don't know about all of this. Is this something like the boxers vs. tighty whitey theory? I can't say that that my feet don't or do work the way they are supposed to. How would I know. I feel fine. Besides, cave men didn't walk so upright did they.

Maybe we have evolved into the shoe and therefore are better with it. I feel as though Mr. Sternbergh is leaving out the fact that 99.99% of us sleep and walk around the house without shoes on. Therefore, our feet adapt to both environments. No?

Although as men, we all have a bit of cave man in us. This is one area I might just keep under wraps. You decide for yourself. Article is linked. There are some cool foot paintings within the article though.